1967 Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Connie Hochman who...

Sisters Patricia and Colleen Neary both took on the role of "Tall Girl" in Balanchine's Rubies ♦️ “The toe-to-ear kicks, hip-jutting...

“Ballet began when Terpsichore touched Apollo’s finger, as on the Sistine ceiling God touches Adam’s, and inspired a pas de deux in which...

Mimi Paul & Francisco Moncion in Emeralds. Photos by Fred Fehl, 1967. Harry Ransom Center In this video from the Foundation’s Video...

“Mr. B was friendly with M. Arpels of Van Cleef and Arpels, and, in a mutually profitable publicity heist, I went with George to the...

In Suzanne Farrell’s autobiography, Holding on to the Air (affiliate link) she talks about a moment at the end of the Diamonds pas de...

Balanchine choreographed a unique solo for Violette Verdy in Emeralds. She said that Balanchine was inspired by Michel Fokine’s style of...

Today begins a year-long celebration of the 75th Anniversary of New York City Ballet and George Balanchine's impact on the ballet world....

One of my favorite stories that Suzanne tells is how her partnership with Jacques began before she met him. You can listen to her tell it...

It's a three show day at the DHKT so I'll present you with 3 posts featuring Patricia McBride as Odette. Get ready because the next 2...

Baryshnikov dancing the 2nd solo in Robbins’ Fancy Free. Photo by Martha Swope, 1979 Video from “Dance in America” dir. Emile Ardolino, 1981

[47/50] “Suki Schorer was a Dew Drop that had the lightness of a refracted sunbeam, and made the “Waltz of the Flowers” an enchanted...

[26/50] A journal entry from Jacques d'Amboise, December 11, 1954: "Karinska told me a friend asked her what she had put in the costumes...

[4/50] “I loved Nutcracker, especially doing Dewdrop. I felt that was really dancing, even more than when I did the Sugar Plum Fairy.”...

(4/6) We can’t talk about AAADT without talking about Judith Jamison. Jamison was a celebrated dancer in the company for 16 years and...

The ballet Prodigal Son was originally choreographed by Balanchine in 1929 for the Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe. The composer, Prokofiev,...

(10/10) Lincoln Kirstein told New York Times in 1986, “Our Swan Lake has never been traditional, anyway. Balanchine created it as an...

(9/10) A lot of people say Balanchine’s one-act Swan Lake is cold and stripped of emotion. Although many story elements are absent I...

(8/10) Between Martha’s wonderful captures, Balanchine’s choreography, and the the beauty of the dancers—whittling thousands of photos...

Today is the 4th out of 10 Swan Lake performances this season. (bottom left) Melissa Hayden & Jacques d’Amboise. Martha Swope, 1967....